A bag of carp weighing more than 100lb is certainly unusual this early in the season but it was achieved at Crediton's Creedy Manor by Carl Poynton, of North Tawton.
He fished a swim three-quarters up the right-hand bank into mid-water depths and the two heaviest of the six commons banked weighed 23lb 3oz and 21lb 14oz and the remainder were all mid to upper doubles.
Mark Whitehead had the assistance of a live launce in the capture of his 16lb pollack taken at the Eddystone Reef from Malcolm Jones' Sea Angler II
Lesley Bush proved the worth of lady anglers by taking commons of 20lb and 18lb and much to the delight of her partner Vic Andrews who also had a very good day's sport during which he brought in four double-figure commons the heaviest 17lb 7oz and the next day had a mirror of 14lb 6oz.
Exeter junior Slade Stevens concentrated on tench and came up with a fish of 3lb.
It was a superb week of carp and cat activity at Emperor Lakes, at Loddiswell in South Devon, most certainly for Marcus Scott whose day job is bailiff at South West Lakes Trust Squabmoor Reservoir, near Sidmouth. He had two superb mirror carp of 40lb 2oz and 36lb 10oz, the former out for the second time at a much increased weight that says much for the development of the fishery by Dave and Joanna Lidstone since they took over the ever-expanding complex.
A common carp of 33lb 6oz was banked by Mark Owen, and Caroline Rogers continued her success story with a beautiful Linear mirror of 30lb 5oz. A fully plated mirror carp of 25lb 12oz was banked by Pete Newmarch and a 24 lb 8oz fish fell to Malcolm Best.
On the day ticket lake a catfish of 41lb fell to Dave Wood and a 21½lb example came to Mark Wood's bait. By no means did every offer come to fruition.
At Halwill's Anglers Paradise, TV celebrity Will Mellor was happy to pose for pictures and sign autographs for fans in the local village after a carp initiation on the beginners' lake.
The opening days of the trout season at Bristol Water Reservoirs were action filled. Blagdon yielded 2,340 fish and the rod average was a high 6.2. Chew Valley produced 1,162 rainbows and here the rod average was 6.8. Only barrows 1 and 2 are available for fishing this year and the catch figure was 1161 for a 3.9 average.
The water is very clear in all lakes but levels are much lower than what is normal at this time of the year.
One of the most successful methods has proved to be slow sinking lines carrying small bright boobys. Hatches of black buzzers have been prolific and the fish are also feeding well on masses of insect life at all the venues.
The Cornish reefs are fishing very well for pollack, the action due to the considerable number of launce now in residence. A number of fish to 16lb a very good weight this early in the season, were taken by Dave and Julie Oxenham and Mark Whitehead fishing from Malcolm Jones' Sea Angler II that was set up to drift the Eddystone's "gully" and the south reef.
Brixham Sea Angling Club holds its annual presentation evening this coming Saturday at its Caster Road headquarters. Club members had many good fish during the past year and this is reflected in the number of Angling Trust specimen fish certificates that were won.
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